Meeting with Michele De Lucchi

Department Mondays

Michele De Lucchi

Architect

Michele De Lucchi was born in 1951 in Ferrara and graduated in architecture in Florence. During the period of radical and experimental architecture he was a prominent figure in movements like Cavart, Alchymia and Memphis.  De Lucchi has designed lamps and furniture for the most known Italian and European companies. For Olivetti he has been Director of Design from 1992 to 2002 and he developed experimental projects for Compaq Computers, Philips, Siemens and Vitra and he elaborated various personal theories on the evolution of the workplace.

He  designed and restored buildings in Japan for NTT, in Germany for Deutsche Bank, in Switzerland for Novartis, and in Italy for Enel, Olivetti, Piaggio, Poste Italiane, Telecom Italia. In 1999 he has been appointed to renovate some of ENEL's (the Italian Electricity Company) power plants. For Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bundesbahn, Enel, Poste Italine, Telecom Italia, Hera, Intesa Sanpaolo and at other Italian and foreign banks he has collaborated to the evolution of the corporate image, introducing technical and aesthetic innovation into the working environments.

He has taken care of numerous art and design exhibitions and has planned buildings for museums as Triennale di Milano, Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma and Neues Museum Berlin.  In the last years he developed many architectural projects for private and public client in Georgia, as Ministry of Internal Affairs and the bridge of Peace in Tbilisi,  recently unveiled.
His professional work has always gone side-by-side with a personal exploration of architecture, design, technology and crafts. In 1990 he founded Produzione Privata, a small-scale company concern through which Michele De Lucchi designs products that are made using artisan techniques and crafts. Since 2004 he has sculpturing  little  wooden houses with the chain saw to create  the essentiality of the architectural style.

Yesterday Now

Memorial Day 2020
Friday 31st of January 2020, h. 11am

Centro Brera Critica Sociale, Via Formentini 10

 

Edited by Barbara Nahmad
with the collaboration of Stefano Carluccio and Stefano Pizzi

For the twentieth anniversary of the Memorial Day, the Accademia di Brera is giving its contribution with two events - open to all citizens - scheduled for the 31st of January 2020 at the Centro Brera Critica Sociale, starting at 11am. Of both is curated by Professor Barbara Nahmad with the collaboration of Professor Stefano Pizzi and Stefano Carluccio, The two events will take place in sequence.

The first is a round table that will be attended by the honorable Emanuele Fiano, son of Nedo, survivor of Auschwitz and parliamentarian of the Italian Republic, Stefano Levi Della Torre, essayist and professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Elena Loewenthal, writer and translator and Ruggero Gabbai, cinematographic director. Moderated by Barbara Nahmad. The theme of the round table is among the most important of our present: how to perpetuate the memory of the Holocaust through a method of communication that is not repetitive and that can be accepted by our liquid society as a food for thought? And again: after twenty years of debate, what kind of approach is needed today in order not to empty the Memorial Day of its meaning? These are the questions from which the dialogue with the guests will develop, with particular attention to the need to renew the spirit of the Memorial Day now that the witness is inevitably passing from the survivors to those who do not have a direct memory of those happenings.

The second event, at the end of the round table, will consist of the screening of “Kinderblock.  L’ultimo inganno” by director Ruggero Gabbai. A film focused on the reality of children interned in the camps and on Dr. Mengele's experiments.

h. 11am: round table with interventions by:

On. Emanuele Fiano, son of Nedo, survivor of Auschwitz and parliamentarian of the Italian Republic.

Ruggero Gabbai, cinematographic director of “ Kinderblock. L’ultimo inganno”

Stefano Levi Della Torre, teacher at the Politecnico di Milano, essayist and painter.

h. 12.30am: screening of the film “Kinderblock, L’ultimo inganno”, 2020

Introduction to the film by director Ruggero Gabbai

Press release

Poster

The students of the Accademia di Brera enter the future and tell the world about it.

On Tuesday and Thursday, the Accademia di Brera will be the protagonist of three events at MDW2020.

The 3rd Edition of Milan Digital Week opens on Monday 25th of May, the most digital week of the year. MDW2020, in a completely online version, wants to reiterate the importance of an open and inclusive discussion on issues that are today conveyed and supported by digital: from work to education, from governance to the environment, up to the sustainable economy. Up to Friday 30th of May there will be over 500 events open to all, including three events signed by the students of the Accademia di Brera that we present in detail.

FAKE LAKE - ONLINE GROUP SHOW
h. 8.00 pm - 12 pm Collegamento su Zoom
https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98417988100
 

exhibition website: www.fakelake.org

 

"Fake Lake" is an online exhibition born from a collaboration between the students of the Department of New Art Technologies at the Accademia di Brera, Milan (IT) and the students of the research seminar "The Art of the self: identity and self-representation from diary to artificial intelligence (AI) ”, at the University of Berkeley, California (US).

Artist: Aaron BARNABAS | Alina Akhaminova | Ariel HELLER | Ashley REED | Aurelia SCHEPPERS | Bailey SANDLER | Ben MICALLEF | Christian DIAZ | Cristina ANGELORO | Dua SHAMSI | Erik NUDING | Giuseppe COCCURULLO | Iris MORREL | Jack MORRISSEY | Jenna MATTISON and Olivia DUTCHER | Jenna RINGUETTE | Kiely LAM | Li SHIYUN | Luca MARCELLI | Mario NOLASCO | Mattia CARLÀ | Regina MADANGUIT | Robert ATKINS | Silvia PORRO | Tanica MARMAI

In an era in which personal life is conveyed by continuous automatisms and mediated by online experiences, the Fake Lake site becomes a safe zone in which the artists of the project try to disconnect from the accelerated routine of contemporary life to allow themselves a moment of introspection and reflection, to analyze their feelings and look for new ways to express them online. But how without being tracked, monitored and cataloged by a capitalist algorithmic control system that will later try to exploit them in its favor? How to express them without entering the 'trap' of the objectification of the body and the fascination of facial masks, means used to collect data and faces? The image becomes an infinite resource of information and habits, and the online existence requires us to passively accept this continuous archiving by the major majors. The impossibility of being able to evade this mechanism sometimes unconsciously translates into the impossibility of seeing a future not corrupted by ephemeral interests, causing a great mass disillusionment. How is it possible to react within this mechanism?

GRACE EXPERIENCE!
h. 11.00 am - 1 pm
Link on Google Meet

Meet google: meet.google.com/ddt-pizv-dsg

Grace experience preview: https://vimeo.com/422385870

website:  https://gracexperience.it

In November 2019, a group of students from the School of New Technologies of Art of the Accademia di Brera responded to the invitation of the director and digital artist Carlo Alfano to collaborate on the "Grace Experience" project, a graphic novel that translates into an exciting narrative sequence the meeting and the birth of a love between a poet and an artificial intelligence.

The story is recited by two real actresses, but completely digitally reworked, with original music signed by the director himself, and involves the audience on an immersive sensory journey that tells the anguish of "singularity", but also the great and happy possibilities that arise. from the meeting between Human and AI.

Projected from the 14th of December 2019 to the 10th of January 2020 in the Sala delle Colonne of the Fabbrica del Vapore, with the Ubi Minor Association, Grace has become the starting point of a research path in which young artists using different tools, from painting to graphics, from installation to sculpture, from video to net art, they compare their own languages.

Thursday 28th of May 2020, as part of the Digital week, Carlo Alfano presents a preview of Grace Experience 2, a new video that involved four students of the Accademia (Eleonora Deligio, Liala Minacapelli, Bianca Terreni, Emma Terreni) in the writing and making. together with actresses Elisa Fois and Elena Marri and co-author Stefano Lazzari.

Coordinates Laura Tettamanzi with the active participation of: Thomas Bentivoglio, Cindy Vanessa Bianchi, Eleonora Deligio, Gianmarco Forzano, Sergio Gimelli, Gabriele Marchina, Stefania Margheritti, Liala Minacapelli, Liliana Romeo, Alessandro Tobia Spadoni, Giuseppe Zanghì, Vanessa Biffi, Fiorella Minnucci, Simone Panzeri, Evelin Vicedomino and the students of the two year course of Net Art: Cristina Angeloro, Mattia Carlà, Giuseppe Coccurullo, Silvia Porro.

IT’S TIME TO DARE
h. 1.00 pm – 3.00 pm
Link on Google Meet

Meet google: meet.google.com/ddt-pizv-dsg

Students of Product design, Fashion design and New Technologies of Art translate their sensitivity to environmental, social issues, the relationship with the city, with the territory and with cultural institutions into creative projects, with ideas (often also accompanied software development), of very innovative apps.

www.milanodigitalweek.com 

Facebook → facebook.com/MilanoDigitalWeek
Evento Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/events/207718413962014/

Instagram → instagram.com/milanodigitalweek
Twitter → twitter.com/MI_DigitalWeek

OFFICIAL HASHTAG
#MilanoDigitalWeek MDW20020 #YesMilanoPeople

Capolavori e tante storie fai da te

A contest to ignite creativity and relive the beauty of 11 masterpieces of Italian art kept in Milan's museums.

MuseoCity, thanks to the collaboration with Milanoguida, proposes a competition to reinterpret 11 works of art selected from the Milanese museums. The aim is to involve you and make you more aware of the importance of the artistic and cultural heritage of the city, while at the same time offering you one more tool to face the long days at home.

MuseoCity is a non-profit association that works for the promotion and enhancement of the great Milanese museum heritage. The intent is to increase the involvement of an ever wider audience in the participation of the artistic and cultural life of the city, also giving the Museum a comfortable and welcoming dimension.

The contest is open to all.

Entering the contest is simple:

  • download and color one of the drawings and continue one of the stories proposed every week from the site https://www.museocity.it/evento/5e754479f52ee400165374c8/;
  • take a photo and share it on your Instagram or Facebook profile and tag @museocity and @milanoguida, or send it to us by email at info@museocity.it;
  • remember the hashtags #MuseoCity #Milanoguida #laculturanonsiferma #iorestoacasa

Everyone will be able to participate every week by coloring only one drawing among those proposed, completing a story, or with a drawing and a matching story.

The competition will end on Sunday 3rd of May 2020.

Winners will be contacted within 10 days of the end of the competition.

 

Each week the most beautiful drawing and story will win a guided tour among those selected by Milanoguida: San Lorenzo, Santa Maria della Passione, Casa Museo Boschi Di Stefano, Museo del Novecento, La Milano di Matteo Bandello, Milano CityLife. The visits will take place as soon as the current restrictions are overcome and the situation has returned to normal.

The jury is made up of members of the MuseoCity Association and Milanoguida. The jury's evaluation will take into account the following criteria: accuracy of the drawings and pleasantness of the texts received, but will also take into account the aesthetic criteria and the value of the message transmitted.

Contest postcards

Postcards n. 1 "L’angelo della vita"

Giovanni Segantini, 1894

Postcard n. 2 "Facciata del Duomo nel 1735"

Anonimo Lombardo, 1816

Postcard n. 3 "Natura morta con cesta di mele e piatto di prugne"

Evaristo Baschenis, 1650 c.a.

Postcard n. 4 "Cinghiale"

Bottega Fiorentina, 1810

Postcard n. 5 "L'Annunciazione"

Alberto Savinio, 1932

Postcard n. 6 "Edicola Famiglia Davide Campari"

Giannino Castiglioni, 1935

Postcard n. 7 "Vittorio Emanuele II"

Gerolamo Induno, 1861

Postcard n. 8 "Dafne"

Alik Cavaliere, 1991

Postcard n. 9 "Lancia di Luce"

Arnaldo Pomodoro, 1985

Postcard n. 10 "Bambino al Mare"

Francesco Messina, 1935

Postcard n. 11 "Veduta di Piazza del Duomo in Milano"

Giovanni Migliara, 1828

Artefici del nostro tempo

II° Edition

for young artists aged 18 to 35

The second edition of the “Artefici del nostro tempo” competition is aimed at young artists invited - through glass design, photography, comics, painting, visual poetry, music video clips and street art - to respond to the question How will we live together? (How will we live together?) Title of the next Architecture Biennale 2020.

“Artefici del nostro tempo” provides for the selection of 10 works for each artistic discipline - created individually or by a collective of artists - which will be exhibited at some prestigious exhibition venues of the Municipality of Venice, in conjunction with the 17th International Architecture Exhibition which will take place from 23rd of May to 29th November 2020.

Participation in the contest is FREE.

The works in competition must be unpublished, original, fruit of the artists' ingenuity, all made after 1st of January 2019, with the exception of the glass works referred to in Point B of art. 5, which provides for the participation of works created after 1st of January 2017.

The selected works will be published in a special catalog that will be distributed on the occasion of a group exhibition. Read all the information in the competition below.

The objectives of the competition are:

  • Spread the contemporary artistic trends of the new generations.
  • To enable young artists to represent the theme "How will we live together?" Through the various artistic expressions.
  • Promote young emerging artists in the disciplines covered by the call by offering them an opportunity to develop and promote their artistic and expressive activity.

The competition is open to all artists and designers (single or grouped together) of age who have not yet turned 35 on the expiry date of the competition, of any sex and / or nationality as long as they are born or resident or study or work in Italy.

Each artist or collective of artists can also participate in several sections by presenting only one work per discipline.

“Artefici del nostro tempo” is a project launched by the Municipality of Venice in collaboration with the Venice Civic Museums Foundation, the Forte Marghera Foundation, the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, the Bosco e Grandi Parchi Institution, Venis Spa and the Consorzio Promovetro Murano

The competition is open to the following artistic disciplines:

  1. Glass design (split into two sections)
  2. Photography
  3. Comic and Illustration
  4. Painting
  5. Visual poetry
  6. Music video clips
  7. Street Art

Each artist can participate by filling in the online form published on the website www.comune.venezia.it no later than 11.59 pm on 15th of March 2020 by registering with their SPID credentials.

Each artist may enroll in one or more disciplines, as long as with different works, according to the methods indicated in the registration form itself, which must be completed in its entirety under penalty of exclusion from the competition.

The following must be attached to the registration form:

  • file relating to a single work (at least 300 dpi) which must not exceed the maximum size of 128 Mb; if the work is made up of several images, a single file with the images mounted in the same sequence with which the work must be exhibited must be attached;
  • two links that refer to two presentation videos of the artist and his artistic production, one of 22 seconds and one of 60 seconds maximum. The videos will be published on social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Joining and participating in the competition implies the unconditional acceptance of all the articles of this announcement: moreover, each participant accepts, if identified among the winners of the prizes, to donate the work to the Municipality of Venice not only in its digital form but also material.

The first three works classified for each of the following categories: Photography, Comics and Illustration, Painting, Visual Poetry, Music Video Clips, Street Art will receive a cash prize as follows:

First prize Euro 3.000, Second prize Euro 2.000, Third prize Euro 1.000.

The Glass Design section includes the following prizes:

Project for a glass work to be carried out:

Single prize of Euro 3.000 to the absolute winner.

Glass works already made:

First place Euro 3,000, Second place Euro 2,000, Third place Euro 1,000.

A special cash prize may be awarded to those artists who, although not winners in their own discipline, have nevertheless distinguished themselves and have been particularly appreciated by the jury.

All the selected works will be published in a catalog and on the website www.comune.venezia.it

 

To request information about the announcement and the different phases of the competition, the Contact Center is active on 041.041, from Monday to Friday from 9 to 13.

The DIME online service platform is also active, accessible at dime.comune.venezia.it

All communications between the Administration and those registered for the competition will take place only and exclusively via the official email address connected to the SPID credentials used by the competitor for registration.

Competition notice 2020 - Artefici del nostro tempo

II° Edition

Poster "Artefici del nostro tempo" - 2020

II° Edition

Elogio del Limite

Prize in memory of Don Sergio Colombo - III ° Edition

The conception of this Award stems from the desire to enhance and support young people who find in the visual arts a tool to measure themselves against reality; to this is added the desire to allow participants a level experience with an artist recognized as a support for future career choices; this year, in fact, the Le Piane di Redona Association offers all students selected by the jury the opportunity to participate free of charge in a workshop by Italo Chiodi, artist and teacher of the Accademia di Brera and artist Giulio Locatelli, at “Spazio Fase Art".

The Prize is intended as a Scholarship and registration is FREE.

First Category

Second grade secondary school students (any orientation and address)

Second Category

Students attending Fine Arts Academies

At the discretion of the Jury, the finalists with dignity of exhibition will be selected and among these the winner, one for each category:

First Category

Prize worth € 500.00

 

Second Category

Prize worth € 1,000.00

 

The works must be unpublished, ie specially designed for this competition. Each artist can participate with only ONE work, favoring the preferred technique.

Michele Bertolini - Aesthetics teacher and art critic

Giovanna Brambilla - Head of Educational Services of the GAMEC of Bergamo

Andrea Mastrovito - Italian Multi-media artist

Marco Sammicheli - lnternational Relations Chief, Officer of Triennale di Milano and Wallpaper* Editor

Giuliano Zanchi - Scientific Director of the Adriano Bernareggi Foundation

17TH OF MAY 2020

Pre-registration - for those who want to participate in the workshop of the artist Italo Chiodi

31ST OF MAY 2020

Registration deadline - Delivery of the drafted project

14TH OF JUNE 2020

Selection of finalist papers

JUNE - JULY

Workshop with the artists Italo Chiodi and Giulio Locatelli

11TH OF SEPTEMBER 2020

Exhibition opening
 

"Art is above all a good craftsmanship, concrete, faithful; and at the same time a being oneself with courage, freedom, in an unconventional attitude and free from salamilecchi and worldly complacencies." don Sergio Colombo

Competition Notice 2019/2020 - Elogio del Limite

Prize in memory of Don Sergio Colombo - III ° Edition

Poster "Premio in memoria di don Sergio Colombo"

Elogio del Limite - 2019/2020

Competition Form

2019/2020 - III° Edition

Illustrations for pediatric environments

Artistic contest to enhance the common areas of the pediatric wards of the Gaetano Pini hospital in Milan.

Crea e Vinci 2 Volte

There are walls that not only limit spaces, but also risk limiting imagination, happiness, inspiration. The walls of a pediatric ward are that kind of walls and it would be nice to be able to tear them down because they are superfluous. Unfortunately, however, they are necessary and then we just have to transform them into imagination, happiness, inspiration.

Take part in the contest and win twice: win the prize and win the gaze of a child who, looking at your wall, will no longer see the wall of a pediatric ward.

 

Download the competition notice, the contest expires on 20th of May 2020.

Competition notice

Artistic Contest

Prize Eleanor Worthington

Contest intended to STUDENTS SCHOOLS ART in LEVEL OF TERTIARY EDUCATION

Inclusion of disability in Raffaello's world

7th edition

On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, celebrated by the United Nations on 3rd of December each year, the Eleanor Worthington Prize Association proposes the awarding of the 7th edition of the Eleanor Worthington Prize reserved for students schools art at the of tertiary education.
Eleanor Worthington (York, UK, 1982 - Urbino, Italy, 2008) was a very intelligent and sensitive person, and of considerable personality strength, who suffered from severe learning and behavioral difficulties, and from epilepsy; she has always managed to communicate, even if in recent years she could no longer speak or move; he had a life full of affections, social relationships, and experiences, both in England and in Italy, where he attended the five years of the State Institute of Art (now Liceo Artistico) in Urbino.

International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
INCLUSION OF DISABILITY IN THE RAFFAELLO'S WORLD

As a theme for the 2020 Award, this year the APEW proposes The harmonious world of Raffaello on canvases, cartoons for tapestries, frescoes, describes a variety of subjects: the sweet Madonnas, portraits, biblical and mythological scenes, in which they are including a number of characters, including many disabled people. Among them, for example, Omero, the blind poet, in Parnassus; the elderly man carried on the shoulder by his son to escape the fire in the Borgo of Rome; the lame person healed by the Apostles in the temple in Jerusalem; the magician temporarily blinded by the Apostles themselves to surprise and convert the Roman proconsul; the epileptic boy then healed by Jesus Christ coming down from Mount Tabor.
These figures never appear alone, but are included in groups or crowds that form and share their story.
On the fifth centenary of Raffaello from Urbino death, candidates are invited to explore the theme of the prize INCLUSION OF DISABILITY IN THE RAFFAELLO'S WORLD with a personal reworking of Raffaello's work, or with an original elaboration. All the various techniques of visual communication are accepted (for example painting, sculpture, illustration, animation, graphics, engraving, goldsmithing, photography, design, lettering, and new technologies ), also with reference to bodily expressions such as mime, sign language, sports disciplines, fitness, dance.

Free registration for the Award must be communicated to: info@premioeleanor.it specifying the institution of origin and the year of registration.

Competitors send their designs to info@premioeleanor.it via WETRANSFER

The files must be compressed, for example .rar or .zip
Entries must be sent by the 15th of November  2020.
Each work must have a title, which can also coincide with the theme of the Prize.

Each participating work must contain the image of the work in .jpg format (not in .pdf), in high resolution for printing (300 DPI) in high resolution for printing (300 DPI), for the purposes of any documentation for the exhibition. For the purposes of the exhibition at York St John University, and any other exhibitions to which the Prize may be invited to exhibit, the works will be printed in cm. 100X70
Animations and videos must have a duration of no more than 3 minutes, and must be: MP4 format, H264 compression.
For any works in VR, the codes must be precisely indicated to be viewed correctly.

Each work can contain a very short concept (max 400 characters including spaces, for presentation on the Prize website). The concept must be in Italian and in English. The concept must be in .doc or .docx format

Each work must be accompanied by a short audio with a description of the work (which is not the concept) to make it accessible to blind people, lasting no more than two minutes. The audio is played either in Italian or in English.

Two versions of each work are required, one nominative (for the exhibition and the website), and one anonymous (for the jury).

The papers are evaluated anonymously.

The evaluation will be made by the jury, based on criteria that will take into account:

  • consistency with respect to the theme
  • communicative effectiveness
  • originality
  • general impression

The jury is made up of:

Bruno Bartoccini, ANFFAS from Fermignano, Urbania and Urbino
Giulio Calegari, Artist and Palethnologist
Roberto Gobesso, ISIA Urbino
Griselda Goldsbrough, Arts Development Manager for the York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Mariella Roberti, Psychopedagogue
Martin Worthington, Lecturer, University of Cambridge

Prize winners will be announced on the website by the 30th of November 2020. First, second and third prizes are awarded. For each level of the award, two will be awarded, one for students from Italian institutions, one for students from British institutions.

First prizes: for competitors from Italian institutions, the first prize consists of a week of hospitality with room and board at York St John University, during the spring or summer of 2021; for competitors from British institutions, the first prize consists of a week of hospitality with room and board at the Colleges of the University of Urbino, in the summer or September 2021. During the award ceremony, a contribution to travel expenses will be awarded. 

Second prizes: consist of € 300 each, offered by the Municipality of Urbino.

Third prizes: consist of art books offered by the Municipality of Urbania.

The Special Award of the Social Territorial Area IV of the Marche Region, equivalent to a first prize, will be awarded to a student enrolled in one of the institutions based in Urbino.
The Mark Bailey Special Award, equivalent to a first prize, will be awarded to a student enrolled in one of the York-based institutions.

The award ceremony will take place at the Conference Hall, Palazzo Ducale di Urbino, on Thursday 3rd of December 2020 at 10 am. During the award ceremony, all the works presented will be shown to the public in digital format.
If, due to external situations, it is not possible to hold the award ceremony in a public place, an online award ceremony will take place, in the manner illustrated on the website www.premioeleanor.it

All the works presented will be displayed in the exhibition dedicated to the Award, which will be held at York St John University, in York, Great Britain, in the spring of 2021, on a date to be determined, which will be announced on the website.

Each candidate expressly authorizes the Eleanor Worthington Prize Association as well as its legal representative, to process the personal data transmitted pursuant to Law 675/96 (Privacy Law) and subsequent amendments of Legislative Decree 196/2003 (Privacy Code), also for the purpose of inclusion in databases managed by the Association itself. Each participant in the competition grants the Eleanor Worthington Prize Association the rights to reproduce the competing works and concepts free of charge, for the sole purpose of publication on the Prize website and other forms of communication, promotion and activities of the Association. itself. Those who do not wish to appear with their works on the Prize website must declare it at the time of registration. The organizers of the competition will have the right to make a final decision on anything not specified in this announcement.
In addition, each candidate expressly authorizes the Eleanor Worthington Prize Association, as well as its legal representative, to request confirmation of belonging to the school indicated at the time of registration for the Award. The organization reserves the right to make changes to the announcement if the need arises.

For the Eleanor Worthington Prize Association
Giuliana Parodi

Eleanor Worthington Prize promo

Art and disability

Competition 2020

Prize Eleanor Worthington - 7th Edition

Examples of disabilities in the Raffaello's world

Informations

La Credenza

Planning and design

Design Competition

La Credenza

The Volunteer Association "Il Mosaico" based in Giussano, Piazzale Aldo Moro 1, registered in the Regional Register of private legal entities and in the Regional Register of Volunteering, announces a competition for the disbursement of a contribution to the most deserving projects for design of a SIDEBOARD to be placed in a property confiscated from organized crime, which has now become a common good through the CASANOSTRA social project.

IL MOSAICO is a non-profit association founded in 2001 with the following objectives:

  • aggregation and sharing for family members and people with disabilities
  • generate and stimulate a culture of inclusion
  • to be an institutional point of reference on social and planning policies for an increasingly inclusive city

CASANOSTRA is a social project managed by IL MOSAICO and the SOLARIS social cooperative of Triuggio (MB) with the contribution of numerous associations and organizations in the area that guarantee real and significant moments of social inclusion.
In addition to offering the opportunity to remember a friend (Paolo Somaschini), this competition aims to respond in a timely and diversified manner to the mandate of the social project.

The IL MOSAICO association announces a competition of ideas for the identification of a type of SIDEBOARD, in which the concepts of social inclusion and legality are expressed and valued in a prevalent (but not necessarily exclusive) way and which vehicles values and identity of the IL MOSAICO association and of the CASANOSTRA social project.
The dimensions must take into account the environment in which it will be inserted. The solutions presented must be original and unprecedented in their compliance with the specific functionality, in compliance with current safety legislation, in compliance with ergonomic requirements and attention to environmental and sustainable design requirements.
The winning project will be completed by the year 2020.

In recent years, design planning has acquired an increasingly social and anthropological value, developing the concept of "Design for Health" or the design and construction of objects, even common ones, which take into account the physical and cognitive differences of the various users. Starting from the definitions of "design for all", it is clear that attention to the physical and psychological needs of the user is central and the need to develop objects that are not discriminatory and that bring the user back into society. The competition aims to raise awareness of the social utility of design, placing ethical and social issues at the center of the design process.

The sideboard must have spaces for the containment of supplies and kitchen material. The possibility of making the sideboard or some of its components mobile is desirable to encourage moments of group teaching work in the area of food preparation.

Participation is open to:

  • designers, artists, creatives
  • students of three-year or specialist degrees and recent graduates of design schools
  • high school grade 4-5 students

The participation of groups of designers is also allowed, but a group leader must be appointed who will be the only responsible and contact person towards the judging commission and the organizers.
Upon registration, participants accept the contents of these regulations.
If the regulation is not, in whole or in part, respected by the participant, the relative project will not be admitted.
Participation is prohibited to members of the Jury, their families, members of the IL MOSAICO association.
Projects must be unpublished and original and developed expressly for the competition.
It is allowed, for each participant (or group), to present only one project.
Participation in the call is anonymous.

The application form to participate in the competition must be made through the electronic procedure available on the website www.ilmosaicoassociazione.it Any communication or clarification concerning the competition will NOT be made individually but exclusively on the website www.ilmosaicoassociazione.it The application form must contain the personal data of the participant, fiscal code, address, landline and mobile telephone number, e-mail address, an explicit declaration of knowledge of this announcement and its unconditional acceptance and, for students, the indication of the university, of the seat, of the study course and year of attendance.
The code and the name(s) of the competitor(s) must be indicated exclusively in the application form, no name must appear on the documents submitted, under penalty of exclusion from the competition.

The documents to be delivered will be in digital version only. The material useful for the announcement can be downloaded from the site. It will be possible to send questions and the staff will respond by making the answers public. The reference site is: www.ilmosaicoassociazione.it

Each participant (or group) must send:

  1. Short report (max 3,000 characters) describing the reasons, the general concept, the characteristics of the project and the materials provided.
  2. Graphic works consisting of n. 5 ISO-A3 horizontal plates (42 x 29.7 cm), which must contain:
  • Table 1: a preview image of the project, which summarizes the salient features
  • Table 2: general concept of the project and sources of inspiration
  • Table 3: plans, elevations, sections, and details considered significant
  • Table 4: representation of the object with axonometric, perspective or rendering views
  • Table 5: materials sheet

All documents must be in .pdf format.

The documents requested must be received without delay no later than the 30th of August 2020 at 12 AM

Competition Publication:
25th of May 2020

DEADLINE FOR THE REQUEST FOR CLARIFICATIONS
by the 30th of June 2020

SEND PROJECTS
1st of June - 30th of August 2020 at 12 AM

JURY WORK
10th of September - 19th of September 2020

AWARD AND AWARDS
26th of September 2020

EXECUTION OF THE ARTIFACT
15th of October - 15th of December 2020

INAUGURATION
20th of December 2020

Competition

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Art Contest Marie Marzloff

Contest theme 2020

Promoted by CESIE, Art and act is an artistic competition inspired by the passions and ideas of Marie Marzloff.
The competition stems from her interest in art, literature and interculturality and from the causes dear to her, gender equality, intercultural dialogue and international cooperation.
It aims to continue the work that Marie has begun to ensure that her ideas and passions last over time.

Contest theme 2020: Community windows.

2020 redesigns, on a global level, the spaces and times of our community life, bringing with it the reflection on connected social changes. The window is our new point of observation, real and metaphorical, on the world around us and on the scenarios that await it, whether they are linked to our local community or to the world-community. Inequalities are accentuated and new perspectives for cooperation and dialogue are glimpsed and seem necessary. We learned to observe the world from a distance and we got closer to ourselves by practicing a strong introspection. The experience of "me without the other" makes us reflect on the sense of community and challenges us to continue building new identities and meanings.

And you, what "community imagery" do you observe from your window?

We ask artists, professionals and non-professionals, students, young people, to send a work that interprets the theme chosen for the 2020 edition.

The works must be able to stimulate reflection and reflect creative ideas that show opportunities and considerations of a conceptual, social and political nature and must be inspired by the theme chosen for this year and the spirit of the competition. Candidates must send an original work. All types of works related to graphic arts are allowed: drawings, illustrations, paintings, digital illustrations, photographs, comics, collages and more. Artistic collectives can also take part in the competition. Each artist or collective can participate by presenting a single work.

The contest is open to people from all over the world, without any age limit. Participation is free.

To participate you must:

  1. fill in the registration form. We remind you that by submitting your work, you accept the terms and conditions of the competition;
  2. upload a digital copy of the work in JPEG format and in high definition (minimum 300 dpi). The file must be named as follows: name_surname.jpg (name and surname of the artist presenting his work);
  3. insert a short text accompanying the work, preferably written in English and not longer than 400 characters;
  4. send the required documentation through the online form by the 1st of October 2020.

The works received will be evaluated taking into account the following aspects:

  • The works presented must be original and unpublished, that is, they must never have been shown previously in other competitions or exhibitions, nor inserted in publications.
  • The work must be in line with the theme and mission of the competition.
  • Entries with a racist background or inciting violence will automatically be excluded.

The members of the International Jury will be announced by the 15th of June 2020.

The winning works will be announced by the 1st of December 2020. The following prizes will be awarded:

  • 1st prize: € 1.000
  • 2nd prize: € 500
  • 3rd prize: € 200

Youth Award

A special award will be set up for works submitted by artists under the age of 211. Furthermore, the winning works can be used for CESIE communication campaigns.

A selection of the works judged to have the greatest impact will be exhibited during an event organized by CESIE. All the works presented, which meet the competition criteria, will be collected in the 2020 catalog of Art and Act.

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